Scott Arend is a local food writer, consulting chef and personal culinary trainer. For the past several years he has also worked as a dresser for theatrical venues around town and is currently the principal male artist dresser for Seattle Opera.

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We’ve been doing a lot of Asian cooking the last week at school and it’s one of my favorite cuisines (but I’ve also said that about the Moroccan, Indian, South American, Italian – you get the picture). I’m not sure why I like it so much – Yakima in the 1960s wasn’t exactly a culinary hot spot for Asian cooking, nor was my mother much of a world cook when I was growing up. My main exposure to “Chinese food” was the leftover fried rice my parents left in the fridge Sunday mornings after the late night …
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